And not correct either, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good rumour!
Unpaid leave has been offered to all. Unpaid working for a percentage of each month has been mooted by management. Funnily enough the uptake has been rather low......
I think your title thread was slightly sensationalist.
What happens is that over a 3 or 6 month period, the equivalent of 1 month's wages would be deducted. It is happening everywhere in the world and I seriously hope that employees of BA look further than their wallets on this occasion.
In the cabin crew thread, there was quite a lot of ridicule against BA staff when they already had the best T&Cs in the industry. the bottom line is the whole world really needs to work together. What is better? 1000 people made redundant or a workforce of 30'000 giving up a months wages? If the average salary of those 30'000 was £20K, then 30000 giving up a months wages makes £50m.
Its a shame that these type of incentives are never actively encouraged by UNIONS - even though the benefit is for everyone involved.
Sorry for the terms of endearment Kelly. But you do sound awfully nice
Jokes aside though, you are right. The CEO who is giving up £41K (one months salary) is nothing but a drop in the ocean. But the guys on 18K-24K would see 200 quid a month out of their wages for 6 months!
If you want to call me a nickname, call me Maverick. People are always telling me I look like Tom Cruise
All been done before.
I took nil cost stand down in the eighties. Nil cost meant just that. I had to pay the company contribution in addition to the employee contribution to my pension.
I can confirm that it is indeed being requested on a voluntary basis and, if there is sufficient interest, a reward by way of a "subject to space being available" staff travel award as "payment in kind" may be offered. At the moment, there is no hard and fast proposal out there - management want to gauge the reaction first.
Remember: A volunteer is worth ten pressed men!
For my own part, I couldn't afford to work for a week for nothing during the normal course of events, but I possibly could put in 37.5 hours of overtime without pay if I could take Mrs Bealine away somewhere nice for an additional break in the dreary winter months!
British Airways is asking thousands of staff to work for nothing, for up to one month, to help the airline survive.
The appeal, sent by e-mail to more than 30,000 workers in the UK, asks them to volunteer for between one week and one month's unpaid leave, or unpaid work.
BA's chief executive Willie Walsh has already agreed to work unpaid in July, forgoing his month's salary of £61,000.
Last month, BA posted a record annual loss of £401m, partly due to higher fuel bills and other costs.
Mr Walsh said BA's drive to save cash was part of a "fight for survival".
And those using the Professional Pilots Rumour Network were also unimpressed.
"The CEO who is giving up one month's salary is nothing but a drop in the ocean. But the guys on 18K-24K would see 200 quid a month out of their wages for 6 months!" wrote Betpump5.
Betpump... you're now famous on skynews website. They went against your suggestion to call you maverick
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